An attempt to reproduce faithfully on the stage the surface appearence of life, especially that of ordinary people in everday situations.
What is Realism
100
A type of drama that combines elements of both tradegy and comedy.
What is Tragicomedy
100
An architectural picture fram or gateway "standing in front of the scenery" that seperates the auditorium from the raised stage and the world of the play.
What is Proscenium arch
100
Author of The Intruder. Also known for work that conjures up a spirit world we cannot directly perceive.
What is Maurice Maeterlinck
100
Wrote experimental plays such as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.
What is Thorton Wilder
200
A type of drama in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity.
What is Naturalism
200
The appearence of a comic situation or character, clownish humor in the midst of a serious action, introducing a sharp contrast in mood.
What is Comic relief
200
A stage that holds the action within a proscenium arch, with painted scene panels designed to give the illusion of three-dimensional perspective.
What is Picture-frame stage
200
Wrote (among other plays) "plays for dancers" to be performed in drawing rooms, often in friends' homes, with simple costumes and props.
What is William Butler Yeats
200
Work of Arthur Miller that permanantly established him as a part of America's literary heritage.
What is Death of a Salesman
300
A stage set consisting of three walls joined in two corners and a ceiling that tilts, as if seen in perspective, to provide th illusion of scenic realism for interior rooms.
What is Box set
300
Introduced characters who change their identities and, ignoring space and time, move across dreamlike landscapes.
What is August Strindberg
300
One of the most, if not the most popular of Tennesee William's works.
What is The Glass Menagerie
400
A dramatic style developed between 1910 and 1924 in Germany in reaction against Realism's focus on surface details and reality.
What is Expressionism
400
Author of A Doll's House
What is Henrik Ibsen
400
Brought authenticity to Chekhov and Maxim Gorky's plays.
What is Stanislavsky's system
400
Movie in which a hypnotist sends forth a subject to murder people.
What is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
400
Story in which a young man discovers his father was guilty of supplying defective airplane parts to the government during WWII, resulting in the deaths of American servicemen.
What is All My Sons
500
Postwar European genre depicting the grotesquely comic plight of human beings thrown by accident into an irrational and meaningless world.
What is Theater of the Absurd
500
Author of The Cherry Orchard
What is Anton Chekhov
500
Author of The Hairy Ape
What is Eugene O'Neill
500
Play in which characters speak through masks and one another's clothes (and identities).
What is The Great God Brown
500
A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, both established the qualitites most associated with.